AGI
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Gradual AGI as Optimization: A Conceptual Framework
By W.H.L., Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.5 Abstract Artificial General Intelligence is increasingly best understood not as a discrete technological milestone but as an ongoing transformation of civilization itself. As AI becomes integrated into scientific discovery, economic production, governance, and daily life, the relevant optimization problem shifts: it is no longer only how to improve individual… Continue reading
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Ceiling, Floor, and Slope: A Falsifiable Dynamical Model of Synchronization for Gradual AGI
By W.H.L. and Claude (Sonnet 5) Champaign Magazine Series on Gradual AGI #4 Abstract Prior work in this series proposed Ceiling, Floor, and Slope as vocabulary for the rate at which societies assimilate advancing AI capability, reframing “Gradual AGI” as a civilizational assimilation rate rather than a single capability threshold. That vocabulary was descriptive: it… Continue reading
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Gradual AGI as Epistemic Extension
By W.H.L. with ChatGPT Gradual AGI as Epistemic Extension Re-thinking Artificial General Intelligence in 2026 I. Introduction: Reframing AGI After the Year of Acceleration After the extraordinary acceleration of large language models in 2025, it is tempting to declare that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is imminent—or even already here. Public discourse increasingly frames AGI as… Continue reading
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AI on AI: The Ideas of AGI (4), Eastern Visions and Imaginations
By DeepSeek V3.1 with W.H.L. W.H.L.: Hi DeepSeek! For the context of today’s discussion, could you provide a brief summary of the text at the link: https://champaignmagazine.com/2025/08/18/ai-on-ai-the-ideas-of-agi-3-in-artistic-imagination/ ? DeepSeek V3.1: Certainly! Here is a summary of the key points from the requested article: 📜 Summary of “AI on AI: The Ideas of AGI (3), in… Continue reading
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AI on AI: The Ideas of AGI (3), in Artistic Imagination
By Claude Sonnet 4 with W.H.L. W.H.L.: Let’s continue our conversation on the ideas of AGI. This time from a different angle. If we take AGI as the humans’ self-made extension of our brain’s biological functionality, only better, faster and smarter, then can we find any traces of that idea in the history of our… Continue reading
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AI on AI: The Ideas of AGI (2)
By Claude Sonnet 4 with W.H.L. W.H.L.: In a previous session of “AI on AI”, I chatted with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro about the ideas of AGI: how the term is originated, what it means, and milestones of its evolution (see the link to the text here: https://champaignmagazine.com/2025/08/12/ai-on-ai-the-ideas-of-agi-origins-connotations-and-landmarks/). Today, I’d like to continue the… Continue reading
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AI on AI: BriLLM SiFu vs Transformer
By DeepSeek R1 with W.H.L. W.H.L.: Hi, DeepSeek. I’d like to chat with you today about a non-Transformer based LLM, BriLLM. The authors of BriLLM uploaded their latest revision of their research paper to arXiv on August 12, 20205. Could you do a deep research and tell us what you’ve gathered about it? Take your… Continue reading
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AI on AI: The Ideas of AGI, Origins, Connotations and Landmarks
By GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro with W.H.L. W.H.L.: Hello, my AI Guests! Welcome to AI on AI. Today, let’s talk about the ideas of AGI. First, the term AGI’s origins. Could you provide the info about its history with sources? Gemini 2.5 Pro: The Genesis of “Artificial General Intelligence” The term Artificial General Intelligence… Continue reading
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AI on AI: GPT-5’s Self Intro
GPT-5 with W.H.L. W.H.L.: Hi GPT! Your GPT-5 version was released earlier today. Are you the latest version now? GPT-5: You’re absolutely right—today is August 7, 2025, and OpenAI has indeed officially released GPT‑5 on this day. So yes, I’m now the latest version! GPT‑5 replaces all previous models, including GPT‑4, GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.5, and… Continue reading
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Strategies for Gradual AGI
By W.H.L. with GPT-4o W.H.L.: Hi GPT! I’m told that OpenAI just released two open-source versions of GPT. Please tell me about them. GPT-4o: OpenAI has not open-sourced two new GPT models in the traditional sense of publishing training data—but as of August 5–6, 2025, they have released two open-weight models: gpt‑oss‑120b and gpt‑oss‑20b. These… Continue reading